2. Noun. (plural of revery) ¹
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Definition of Reveries
1. revery [n] - See also: revery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reveries
Literary usage of Reveries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly (1870)
"REMARKS ON "ETYMOLOGICAL reveries."* AS reveries in general are very pleasant,
so especially are etymological reveries. They have somewhat of the poetical ..."
2. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"Dream* and reveries are alike opposed to the reality, and have their origin in
the imagination ; but the former commonly passes in sleep, and the latter ..."
3. Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford (1835)
"reveries.—Walls of Padua.—Confused Pile dedicated to Saint Anthony. ... I was
too deeply plunged in my reveries, to notice the landscape which lay before me ..."
4. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"To examine how far the Phenomena of Imagination, reveries, and Dreams, are
agreeable to the foregoing Theory. THE recurrence of ideas, especially visible ..."
5. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"V. OF IMAGINATION, reveries, AND DREAMS. PROP. XCI. ... reveries, and Dreams,
are agreeable to the foregoing Theory, THE recurrence of ideas, ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1780)
"8vo. i s. Murray. 1780. POLITICAL. Art. 16. Political reveries, end Utopian
Schemes for the Welfare ef Great Britain and Inland. By an Idle Man. ..."
7. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Léon Vallée, Richard Garnett, Alois Brandl (1899)
"THE reveries OF A BACHELOR. BY DONALD 6. MITCHELL. ... Under the pseudonym of "
Ik Marvel" he has published "reveries of a Bachelor" (1850), his best-known ..."
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